Connecticut gets into the mix on Esquire’s Best Bars in America 2014 list!

Okay New Haven, we get it…you’re pretty awesome. You get your own billboards on 95, advertising your famous and award-winning pizza pies. You get Yale…and you get included on a list that includes some of the best bars in America. Specifically, you get included on Esquire’s 9th annual Best Bars in America guide, put together by David Wondrich, Esquire’s knowledgable cocktail expert.

While Wondrich’s list spans the entire country, from Seattle, to Portland, to LA, to Houston, to Richmond, Boston, NYC, and it also features Anchor Restaurant on 272 College Street in New Haven. According to Wondrich, when you go you need to order a gin martini with a twist. Here’s what he had to say about Anchor: